Piano Recital BINGO – A Fun Printable To Pass On The Warm Fuzzies In Your Studio

Successful piano teachers know that building a community among studio families is the key to a lasting business. A sense of belonging will keep students coming back year after year after year.

And the perfect setting for fostering a sense of community is a piano recital. During a recital your entire studio is in one room. You must seize this opportunity and strengthen those bonds.

Today we’re sharing one idea that will not only accomplish this task, but will keep your students engaged and interested throughout your entire recital. Your young students will be focused on other performances in a mindful way, all the while, passing on warm fuzzies to their peers.

Build Community With Piano Recital BINGO

Today’s printable will help your students get to know their peers, build feelings of confidence and pride, become present and mindful listeners during live performances, and accentuate performance goals.

To use Piano Recital BINGO print out multiple copies of the activity sheet (click on the image below to download – it prints well in color or in black and white) and then distribute the sheets, along with pencils, as your students arrive at the recital (students only, not other audience members). Note: I Highly recommend selecting a senior student to do this task for you!

At the beginning of the recital read the descriptions inside each box on the activity sheet and then explain to your students that, as the recital progresses, they should fill in each box with the name of a performer who matches the description in a box. For example, if a box says, “Used lots of dynamic contrast,” the students should fill in the name of a performer who played her piece with lots of dynamic contrast.

Instruct your students to: 1. Use their recital program as a reference when filling students’ names into the boxes, and 2. Fill in every box by the time the recital is over.

At the end of your recital, collect all of the sheets. Give a small prize to any student who has written a name into every box and achieved a Piano Recital Bingo.

Following your recital, post them in your studio (be sure there is an even distribution of names and add in some of your own completed sheets if some students didn’t get mentioned). Finally, encourage your students to find their names on the sheets during their next lessons so they can bask in their warm fuzzies! 🙂

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Okay, I did use it yesterday. Loved it! Since the recital ends our lessons for the year, after the recital I collected these and cut apart all the squares, and sorted them by student. Then I took a photo of all the”votes” each student got and emailed them to the parent so the kids could see all their “compliments.” Thanks again for this nice idea.

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My students love, love, love these !
I think the same concept would be great for younger students as well. Maybe one for the little girls based on a “tea-party” for all the stuffed animals on her bed.
Or one for little boys about firemen…or trains, planes, and trucks.
I’ve put the students’ pages in binders for them and every week they come through the door ready to show me their progress and begging for the next “installment”. I let them use the hole-punch and add the new pages to the binder 🙂 Thanks, Andrea, for this
terrific resource.

Yet, another wonderful activity that will keep the students actively listening, throughout the recital! I do something similar, in that I also give the audience one, (It’s a group of about 30), and ask them to listen or look for certain things, such as the contrasting dynamics, a trill, fast piece, flowing piece, a Bach piece, nice bow, posture, smile, etc.! I think that I will now add to include the student’s name, and use as a warm fuzzy. I love it! Thanks for sharing, again!

I love this! I just have one question… at the church where we hold recitals, the piano is not particularly visible to most of the audience, so kids won’t be able to see each other’s piano posture. Is there any way you could offer this as an editable file so I could replace that box? Either way, thanks for the awesome ideas! 🙂